1899. No edition remarks. 296 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial cloth covered boards. Black and white illustration plates by Edith Capper. Black and white frontispiece. Prize plate to front pastedown. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Cracking to front hinge with netting exposed. Binding loose. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces heavily tanned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is dulled but remains brighter on front. Book has slight forward lean.